The Company
This FMCG manufacturing business has built a strong national presence through a continued focus on operational excellence, asset reliability, and continuous improvement across multiple workshops. Due to ongoing growth and investment, they are now recruiting for a Regional Maintenance Manager to oversee maintenance operations across 10+ sites nationally.
The Role
Reporting into the Head of Maintenance Operations and forming part of the leadership team, your responsibilities will include:
* Develop and implement the regional maintenance strategy across 10+ workshops.
* Drive a proactive reliability and preventative maintenance culture across all operations, ensuring KPI's around OEE, uptime, downtime, asset reliability, and safety are achieved.
* Lead, mentor and develop site maintenance leaders and technical teams to improve capability and standardise best practice across the network.
* Partner closely with maintenance & operations leaders to improve performance, reduce maintenance spend, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
* Oversee lifecycle management of plant assets including capital upgrades, obsolescence planning, and long‐term maintenance planning.
* Implement reliability‐centred maintenance practices including RCA, Fishbone Analysis, PM optimisation and predictive maintenance strategies.
* Drive standardisation of maintenance systems, processes and reporting across the multi‐site operation.
* Support capital projects, site expansions, and equipment upgrades across the manufacturing network.
Your Background
In order to be successful in this role, you will be:
* Degree or trade qualified within an engineering discipline, including mechanical, electrical, mechatronics or similar – Required.
* Proven experience leading maintenance and reliability functions within a fast‐paced FMCG or manufacturing environment.
* Strong leadership experience, ideally across multiple teams & locations.
* Extensive experience developing and implementing preventative and reliability‐centred maintenance strategies.
* Strong understanding of continuous improvement methodologies including Lean, 5S, Six Sigma and Root Cause Analysis techniques.
* A strong people leader with the ability to influence stakeholders across operations, engineering, and executive leadership teams.
* Excellent communication, problem‐solving and strategic planning capabilities.
What's on Offer?
In return, you will be given the opportunity to join a leading FMCG manufacturing business in a strategically important leadership role with influence across a large and complex operation. You will also be joining a business with strong long‐term growth plans, ongoing investment, and a genuine focus on leadership development and continuous improvement.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, you can contact Maurice Tranchina at Blackbook Executive on (03) 9823 7413.
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